King Charles is considering breaking royal tradition to hand the Princess of Wales an "unprecedented" royal role to help him with official business.
11.10.2022 - 11:14 / ok.co.uk
King Charles III is said to be planning a “modest” Coronation, where his eldest son Prince William, 40, will play a key role. Charles was formally proclaimed King just days after his late mother Her Majesty the Queen died last month, but his official Coronation isn’t expected to take place until sometime next year.
In light of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, His Majesty wants a “scaled back” Coronation, which is expected to last an hour – compared to Queen Elizabeth’s three-hour long ceremony. It’s said that the guest list has been scaled back to just 2,000 attendees, instead of 8,000.
Discussing the upcoming “modest affair”, an insider told Mail Online: “It was always planned to be a more modest affair given the world we now live in.This direction of travel has accelerated given the economic challenges we are facing. “His Majesty is very attuned to the public mood on these things and has always had an instinctive aversion to pomp in the wrong circumstance.” In regards to William’s “prominent role” – it will mark the first time a monarch’s child has taken part in a Coronation, according to the publication.
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.King Charles is considering breaking royal tradition to hand the Princess of Wales an "unprecedented" royal role to help him with official business.
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crowned sovereign of the United Kingdom, King Charles III will finally get his day in the sun.Following her death last month, Charles, 73, became the new monarch and his own coronation is set for May 6, 2023.The date is also the day that his grandson Archie — the son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — will turn 4 years old. Queen Elizabeth was ordained as ruler on June 2, 1953, and her coronation was full of pomp and circumstance.However, Charles’ ceremony is reportedly set to be a scaled back and more modernized celebration.“The king has stripped back a lot of the coronation in recognition that the world has changed in the past 70 years,” a source recently divulged to the Mirror.The three-hour service at Westminster Abbey will be pared down to just 60 minutes.As for guests who earned a coveted spot on the invite list, the amount has been chopped down from 8,000 to 2,000.It is expected that peers will wear formal coronation robes, however, the need for the uniform choices may be modified.Operation Golden Orb, which is the code name for the planning of the coronation, was first speculated to be held on June 3.
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King Charles is poking fun at an incident that occurred a few weeks ago when he burst open a pen.
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The affair between King Charles and Camilla Queen Consort has been mentioned in a new trailer for Netflix show, The Crown.The latest instalment of the smash-hit series about the royal family, is set in the nineties, at the time when the late Princess Diana and the now-King's marriage ended in a messy divorce. Season five of The Crown, which is released on 9 November, sees Elizabeth Debicki take on the role of the late princess and Dominic West playing the part of Charles.The trailer begins with a close up shot of Elizabeth as Diana, whilst the original statement that was released by Buckingham Palace, when the couple split in 1992, could be heard.They didn't officially divorce until 1996.